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It's almost 10 in the evening and the temperature is as hot and sticky as it was at noon, the traffic noise in the busy street just as loud as it was at rush hour when people were making their way home. We're having an early drink at Esquina Homero Manzi, one of Buenos Aires' most iconic bars in a city of a thousand iconic bars and cafés. Nearby sit groups of hipsters in skinny jeans and Puma sneakers, women of a certain age with nicotine-stained smiles, and octogenarian couples dressed to the nines. Here, as in many confiterias and bars around the city, the night is just beginning, as is my search for the new Buenos Aires.

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While campaigning in his native Michigan today, Mitt Romney cracked a joke about his own birth certificate, prompting President Obama's campaign to accuse him of lining up with the so-called "birther" movement.

Chances are you don't need to look up the definition of "F-bomb" — but you could if you wanted to now that the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has added it, among other new words, to the dictionary.

Kristen Stewart is burning with embarrassment, according to RadarOnline, and the breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams is just so overwhelmed by the crippling "trampire" shame of that Rupert Sanders affair that she’s supposedly dropped out of a film role and a red-carpet appearance, instead choosing to cry herself unconscious somewhere in Hollywood.

Let's clarify that headline a bit: according to RadarOnline, Stewart's actually been "banished" from the event. Banished! Exiled! Cast into the wilds alone, Hot Topic storefronts her only shelter, steady tears her only sustenance. J/K, everybody!

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